The Graffiti Blog Thing

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Here's what happens when amateur artists tag areas where they're not supposed to.......

It's a beautiful house. Really. Or, at least, it was.It's been abandoned for a while, granted, and it would take a lot to fix it up and all, but now it'll be a lot more to get it fixed up. Notice, for instance, in the top picture-the open window. You know what that means? That means that somehow, one or more of these kids got into the house.Now, I know it's graffiti, and I've heard comments from people I show these photos to that they actually look cool. But come on...there are better places to pick than the front of a house....

Monday, January 14, 2008

Mmmkay, this is gonna seem small and worthless. Truly. Because I can't really get out and about enough.

I live in Houston, mmkay? It's hard enough to find graffiti around here as it is, so I'm just uploading two (very poor excuses for) pictures this time.

However, I managed to find a much better example of graffiti. Rejoice all.

No Parking, Towaway zone. Graffiti and a sticker.

A spray-painted "Triple T" sign in a certain high school in Houston, Texas. Definitely graffiti, but nobody's complaining.

Environmental graffiti, power-washed into the sidewalk. Translation: "From Rock to Reggae, everything is in the earth."

Mmkay, I know you probably haven't heard much of environmental graffiti. Basically, advertising companies built a stencil, then power-wash it into the ground for a fee. They are hired by a large variety of people, and are able to get away with this because they're technically cleaning the part of pavement they're on. This is a huge loophole; also, in order to get rid of this particular piece of graffiti, the city will have to pay to have the entire strip of sidewalk it happens to be on cleaned.